Gold medallion with Aphrodite?, from Yakhmour, Syria, inlaid with garnets. Diameter 3.2 cm.
Former Louis de Clercq (1882-1901) collection, Paris;
recently [5 December 2024] sold at auction Bonham’s https://www.bonhams.com/auction/29083/lot/68/a-collection-of-egyptian-greek-roman-and-byzantine-gold-and-garnet-jewellery-and-a-western-asiatic-gold-pendant-23/
The jewel was published: A. de Ridder, Collections de Clercq, Tome VII, Les bijoux et les pierres gravées, Paris, 1911, p.242, no. 1348, as a part of the Syrian jewelry group. [for the Syrian jewelry from de Clercq collection read Trésor hellénistique trouvé à Délos en 1964, Tony Hackens, Edmond Lévy https://www.persee.fr
See also the medallion >> https://colorsandstones.eu/2025/01/20/medallion-with-aphrodite-2nd-century-bce-hellenistic-syria-d-b/
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